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China Set To Ban All Foreign Media From Publishing Online (independent.co.uk)

Posted by yaelk on from the who-would-have-thought dept.

schwit1 writes: A new directive issued by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has said that companies which have foreign ownership (at least, in part) will be stopped from publishing words, pictures, maps, games, animation and sound of an 'informational and thoughtful nature' unless they have approval from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.

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  1. It is only a matter of time... by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...before the US and EU follows suit. You will only be allowed on the Internet with approved devices and approved content. You don't think this is possible? Think of the children and the terrorists! Why do you hate children and don't you want to protect your Freedoms?

  2. I wonder why China feels so threatened by ZorinLynx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The country is prosperous, the state is firmly in power without any real challenge to it... Why do they feel the need to micromanage the Internet this way?

    1. Re:I wonder why China feels so threatened by tnk1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      In the sense that it has private ownership of business, but the government coordinates the business, they're actually starting to look like a textbook fascist state. If you take away the very negative connotations of the word fascist and look at the economic and political setup of Fascist Italy and Spain and Germany, the parallels are striking.

      It is true that China is not burning minorities in ovens, but Italy or Spain did not do that either.

      From a purely neutral connotation, China is realizing the goal of the state coordinated fascist economy. Part of fascism is strong nationalism and the need to keep the People as a united front working with unions, the party, and business to move forward the State. Information control is an important part of keeping a united front as people become concerned with the ways that such a state does deals between the power brokers in a manner that excludes the People from any say in what happens.

    2. Re:I wonder why China feels so threatened by HornWumpus · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The Shanghai stock market is in the middle of a huge bubble. Powerful people in China are invested in that market. If normal people are allowed to know the average PE ratio on that market is still 50 (after a 50% drop) they will pull their money out, which will hurt the members of the central committee and their children.

      I don't know how they think these powerful people will get their money out, but the powers that be are determined to not lose their money. So no 'bad mouthing' the Shanghai exchange.

      This says nothing of the state of China's real estate market or banking sector.

      To me it seams like the Chinese were babes in the Capitalist woods and have truly screwed the pooch. They will lose 20 years progress when the bubble finally goes pop and will likely try to blame 'the west'.

      --
      John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
  3. Re:Will Slashdot be affected? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Informative

    Will Slashdot be affected by this? Will it no longer be accessible in China?

    Slashdot is accessible in China, always has been, and will likely continue to be. This law only affects material hosted in China. The Chinese government doesn't care much about material published in English, unless it is overtly political.

    If Slashdot started supporting utf8, so that people could post in Chinese, the situation might change. But we all know that will never happen.